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Haarlem, NH, NL

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

De Groene Grachten's mission is to make monuments more sustainable. My job here is to help my colleagues with smoothing out the processes, so they can focus on the content of the work.

Noord Holland, Netherlands

Born from our mutual frustration on miscommunications on sustainable action, I co-founded Stichting Dinc. Our mission is to provide clear answers on sustainability challenges by using Life Cycle Analysis and making the insights actionable. I also wrote the blog "Draagkracht" where I share more broad context insights into the impact of consumer choices.

Coordinating Active8-Planet; an EU project to activate sustainability and interdisciplinary skills between students, teachers and society. My job is to facilitate students, company partners and academics to co-create on a sustainability challenge. Working through each of their expertises and shared goals, bridging the gap of science to practice. I do this.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Coordinating 'De Partnershipverkiezing'; coaching young professionals to set up a sustainable business case within their company. And organising three events during the pandemic to guide and inspire these trainee’s and turn them into successful intrapreneurs.

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

Recruiting restaurants for the project Doggy Bags and inventorying produce shops on their left over policies. Supporting acquisition and team meetings.

Hoofddorp

Projectlead of Haarlemmermeer Waterproof - raising public awareness on the challenges surrounding climate adaptation and offering an online framework for residents to act.

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

To encourage greening by residents in Haarlem, I worked with NME Haarlem to implement three green participation projects with residents.

For the redesign of the UvA website, I was asked to serve as project manager. This was a large website (200,00+ pages) with many different stakeholders. My role was to set up and supervise a project team and deliver a redesign within the tight scope.

Haarlem Area, Netherlands

As a freelancer I worked at the coworking space KlimaatLab. Here I enjoyed coordinating network events and setting up team meetings.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As a freelance Strategic Producer I assisted in (event)planning, organisation, todo lists, time boxing, hosting, workshop facilitating, etc. I'm an activator with a focus on efficient short and longterm planning.

As a trainee I organised the event ‘De Gezonde Stad Monitor’. I convinced the location of our value and kept the collaboration on the right track. I was the intermediary for all content production, data collection, production activity and the promotion of the event. During this job I learned how to work my butt off for something big and tangible.

Apple Store Amsterdam

It was an amazing experience to go through all the mechanisms involved with the opening of a new Apple store. My position as a specialist required of me to help customers choose the right device for them. I would also help with the personal setup and simply making their visit fun and exciting. In this function I was confronted with the joy of teaching..

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

The first few months I worked here part time as a cleaner. Soon, however, I got promoted to hotel manager. Now this might be peculiar for an 18 year old. But the hotel was setup in such a way that there was only one employee present. My job was to setup breakfast, do the laundry, wait on the guests, assisting the guests with questions, checking in/out of.

Upper Secondary Teacher, Biology

At the Interdisciplinary Teachers Education (ILO) of the UvA I studied to become a biology teacher. For this period I did my internship of.

Master Of Science (Msc), Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

In 2014 I finished the second year of my master Ecology and Evolution. In my first year I enjoyed all the classes and I did an internship.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, General

I fully enjoyed my bachelor. I loved learning from the professors and found all the information they gave very motivating. For my bachelor.

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